The reality star says that his hitting on the waitress led to her becoming distracted from her job and thus led to the mammoth bill: "She was distracted as she keyed in the bill and what should have been £48 ended up as £488,706.08.

"It was resolved very quickly and we had a good laugh about it, but then I made a schoolboy error of judgement – I tweeted the bill."

Oh Spencer.

"It was meant to be a joke. Surely no one could seriously think I would drop £500K on a round of drinks."

"I woke up the next day to over 3,000 retweets, and several people berating me for such an outrageously extravagant waste of money and that I should have donated the money to the Philippines DEC campaign instead of a boozy night out.

"Well for once I wholeheartedly agree with my twitter critics."

*THUD*

The reality star concludes "The DEC campaign is certainly a worthy cause and I am happy to match my night’s drinks bill pound for pound (the real one), and I would ask you to do the same."